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The Important Cinema Club

#197 - Martin Scorsese: The Cinephile

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7576 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We discuss Martin Scorsese's love for movies, how that love has affected his own work and the essential preservation work he's spearheaded with his World Film Foundation. We also focus on two films Scorsese helped give new life: Ahmed El Maanouni's music documentary TRANCES (1981) and Michael Powell's disturbing horror picture PEEPING TOM (1960) This week on the Patreon episode we discuss Martin Scorsese's GANGS OF NEW YORK. Become a Patreon subscriber for $5 a month and get an exclusive episode every week!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, my name is Justin the Cluard. I'm here today with Will Sloan.

0:07.8

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're finally doing an episode on the god of cinema Martin Scorsese.

0:15.5

Justin, earlier this week, I went to see the movie underwater at the Young and Dundas Cineplex, and Kristen Stewart.

0:21.8

I'd never seen a movie before.

0:23.8

The images were overpowering.

0:25.8

The play of light and shadow.

0:27.8

The emotions that seemed boiling just beneath the surface of every shot.

0:32.4

I realized that this was a medium that held an almost primal power over me.

0:37.0

Whoa, Marty, you're here?

0:39.5

You're a big fan of underwater, the, I guess, K-stue joint?

0:44.2

Yeah.

0:44.8

You know, that's a riff that's going to date this podcast instantly, because underwater,

0:49.5

which opened the second week of January 2020, is probably already already forgotten the time this episode drops.

0:54.8

Probably.

0:55.6

But you know what?

0:56.4

It doesn't matter because Martin Scorsese thinks that we should archive it and have it for history.

1:03.1

Because who knows what will be the important films of the future?

1:06.7

You know, it's been 197 episodes.

1:14.4

And it's taken us this long to get to the God Marty.

1:15.0

Yes.

1:19.3

And one of the reasons is, you know, you and I, we like Martin Scorsese, but one of the reasons is that what's a way to talk about him that isn't really boring?

1:22.9

There is no way, except for the one that we're doing today.

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